When discussing a tragedy involving massive loss of human life, it's natural to wonder when it becomes OK to make humor—say, some horrible, on-the-nose wordplay—part of the healing process. Some popular answers include "never" and "definitely not while you're still reporting from the scene of the disaster."
Joan Rivers was on last night's Late Show with David Letterman, because The Great Joan Rivers Moment-Having of 2014 is not yet over. Letterman challenged her with questions that in other circumstances she might deem "negative," but she answered his with humor and whatever the Rivers equivalent of grace is, as she…
The Wrap reports that Joan Rivers "insisted her quick exit was not a PR stunt," regarding her storming off during a satellite CNN interview this weekend. But of course it was—she may not have caused a scene for the sole purpose of selling more copies of her 12th book, Diary of a Mad Diva, she may have been…
Reliable Sources anchor Brian Stelter: “I will eat my remote control—in fact, I will eat my copy of the New York Post—if Murdoch becomes the owner of CNN.”
During an interview with CNN's Fredericka Whitfield, comedian Joan Rivers, who is promoting her new book, Diary of A Mad Diva, stormed out, reacting to Whitfield's questions with "All you've done is negative!"
Someone — a viewer upset at the network's waning coverage of MH370? — drove a large Mercedes-Benz through the front window of the CNN Center in Atlanta at around 4:15 this morning. CNN is reporting no injuries.
Two videos were recently leaked of a teenage Justin Bieber using the word "nigger"—first as a joke, then in song. On Sunday Bieber apologized (this was before the second video aired). Page Six, however, is also reporting that there is additional footage that "explicitly shows this was more than just one regrettable…
Ivan Watson, a correspondent for CNN reporting from Istanbul, Turkey, was delivering a report on the heavy police presence on the one-year anniversary of the Taksim Square protests, when he was taken in by authorities on live TV.
CNN announced on Friday that it'd fired one of its news editors, Marie-Louise Gumuchian, after discovering multiple instances of plagiarism in her work. According to CNN's editor's note, Gumuchian regularly covered news about Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
It was only a few months ago that Larry King was angling to get his old job back, but the ancient soothsayer is now telling interviewers that he dodged a bullet.
In a landmark expression of idiocy, international news organization CNN has put together a handy little article on the future of the Ku Klux Klan. Accompanied by a detailed slideshow and about 2,000 words, the headline reads "Can the Klan rebrand?"
The flight instructor and simulator pilot featured in CNN's somehow-still-ongoing coverage of the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 has been fired from his day job for dressing like a teenager and "shaming Canadians."
Silver wolverine Animorph and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper appeared today on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, The Howard Stern Show, to address his feud with Alec Baldwin over the aging actor’s penchant for calling people “queens” and, yes, “cocksucking fags.”
Former CNN muckraker (haha) Piers Morgan bid farewell to his 9pm cable news time slot last night, having been ousted by the network due to flagging viewership of his Piers Morgan Live. The imported Brit dedicated his final segment to his career's latest, greatest cause: U.S. gun control.
No, soccer legend Pele is not dead. But if he did die later today, someone might want to ask CNN where they were.
Last night, CNN anchor Don Lemon posed an interesting question to his guests: Did a black hole cause Flight 370 to vanish?
CNN says Piers Morgan is out — thanks to awful ratings, his show is getting canceled as early as next month.
Culler of black youths, charmer of ladies, and copier of stock photos George Zimmerman acknowledged in a new interview that everything would be "tremendously easier" for him if he hadn't shot a hole in Trayvon Martin and watched the young man's life force bleed out of it.
